Top 14 Calvin Harris Quotes

I trade musical favours like cattle. I can’t remember the last time I did a remix for actual money. For me, I try and get a good swap.

I’m not good at interviews, I’m not good at dancing, I’m not good at looking like I’m having fun. I never will be, I don’t think. Unless I go to a life coach.

Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.

I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don’t myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren’t, so that must be good for them… but not us.

The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they’re proving – obviously that applies to myself too.

There’s only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.

I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun – I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.

When I’m a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.

Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.

Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It’s not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.

I’m not angry, I’m not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I’m more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.